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Anonymous wrote:The 15 yo Russian skater was of course beautiful and even with a fall she scored 30 points higher than anyone else.

I really dislike the unattractive plié move everyone seems to be doing this year.

That's called a cantilever and people have been doing it for ages.

Yeah, like in Sonja Henie shows in the middle of the last century. For ages is right.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, Ilia should be competing at the Olympics — it is so sketchy how they ignore the results of nationals to pick whom ever they want.. And he is a local kid (FCPS student)!

Not picking Malinin for the Olympics was absolutely the right decision. What would be sketchy is if US Figure Skating ignored the careful criteria they set up to choose the Olympic team. The criteria is there for a reason. They followed it, which was the right thing to do. Body of work is reliable. Brown and Zhou (Malinin beat Zhou at Nationals, too, remember?) have come through time and again for the US. (Well, Zhou often chokes, like he did last night, but he also has had good moments.) Malinin had one good competition. He could be a flash in the pan. Who knows? The Olympics are not the time to figure that out. The right US men are on the team.

Brown hasn't "come through." He skates clean programs that are not up to the current international standards of difficulty. He does not place internationally and will not.

That "flash in the pan" could have been competitive with his program. Oh well.

Sure he has. Brown finished 7th in the 2021 World Championships, ensuring that, paired with Chen’s score, the US would have the chance for 3 Olympic slots in the men’s event. Zhou finished - oops! - 25th in those championships! Didn’t even qualify for the long program. Cough cough.

Brown also qualified for the Grand Prix final this season - meaning he was among the top 6 men in the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, Ilia should be competing at the Olympics — it is so sketchy how they ignore the results of nationals to pick whom ever they want.. And he is a local kid (FCPS student)!

Not picking Malinin for the Olympics was absolutely the right decision. What would be sketchy is if US Figure Skating ignored the careful criteria they set up to choose the Olympic team. The criteria is there for a reason. They followed it, which was the right thing to do. Body of work is reliable. Brown and Zhou (Malinin beat Zhou at Nationals, too, remember?) have come through time and again for the US. (Well, Zhou often chokes, like he did last night, but he also has had good moments.) Malinin had one good competition. He could be a flash in the pan. Who knows? The Olympics are not the time to figure that out. The right US men are on the team.

Brown hasn't "come through." He skates clean programs that are not up to the current international standards of difficulty. He does not place internationally and will not.

That "flash in the pan" could have been competitive with his program. Oh well.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, Ilia should be competing at the Olympics — it is so sketchy how they ignore the results of nationals to pick whom ever they want.. And he is a local kid (FCPS student)!

Not picking Malinin for the Olympics was absolutely the right decision. What would be sketchy is if US Figure Skating ignored the careful criteria they set up to choose the Olympic team. The criteria is there for a reason. They followed it, which was the right thing to do. Body of work is reliable. Brown and Zhou (Malinin beat Zhou at Nationals, too, remember?) have come through time and again for the US. (Well, Zhou often chokes, like he did last night, but he also has had good moments.) Malinin had one good competition. He could be a flash in the pan. Who knows? The Olympics are not the time to figure that out. The right US men are on the team.

Brown hasn't "come through." He skates clean programs that are not up to the current international standards of difficulty. He does not place internationally and will not.

That "flash in the pan" could have been competitive with his program. Oh well.

Sure he has. Brown finished 7th in the 2021 World Championships, ensuring that, paired with Chen’s score, the US would have the chance for 3 Olympic slots in the men’s event. Zhou finished - oops! - 25th in those championships! Didn’t even qualify for the long program. Cough cough.

Brown also qualified for the Grand Prix final this season - meaning he was among the top 6 men in the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, Ilia should be competing at the Olympics — it is so sketchy how they ignore the results of nationals to pick whom ever they want.. And he is a local kid (FCPS student)!

Not picking Malinin for the Olympics was absolutely the right decision. What would be sketchy is if US Figure Skating ignored the careful criteria they set up to choose the Olympic team. The criteria is there for a reason. They followed it, which was the right thing to do. Body of work is reliable. Brown and Zhou (Malinin beat Zhou at Nationals, too, remember?) have come through time and again for the US. (Well, Zhou often chokes, like he did last night, but he also has had good moments.) Malinin had one good competition. He could be a flash in the pan. Who knows? The Olympics are not the time to figure that out. The right US men are on the team.

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You must be desperate because you're making basic mistakes. Zhu qualified under the women's TEAM short program. She fell under that program and took the entire Chinese team (7 other competitors) who were in 3rd place - down to 5th. Preventing an entire TEAM from medaling. So a) it wasn't just 3 out of 27 people who can medal and b) her failure became her team's failure which makes it even more pitiful. Thanks to her Japan is in the lead for Bronze and there's no way anyone but Russia and U.S. will take Silver and Gold for team medals (not even speaking on individuals). The lead is too far to catch up for a team medal with one program remaining.

Here's the U.S. celebrating its 2018 Bronze TEAM medal.

You must be really new to Olympic figure skating if you think the team medal means anything. God bless you and your little bronze medal.

But you haven't answered the question.

Do you think only the athletes who have a reasonable chance to win should enter the competition?

In the competition that MATTERS, ladies' singles event, there will be thirty women competing. Including a woman from Azerbaijan. And a woman from Finland. And a woman from Australia. Who have no path to medals, whose names no one knows except their countrymen. They have no chance to win. Do you think they shouldn't be there? Do you think they should pack up and go home?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, Ilia should be competing at the Olympics — it is so sketchy how they ignore the results of nationals to pick whom ever they want.. And he is a local kid (FCPS student)!

Not picking Malinin for the Olympics was absolutely the right decision. What would be sketchy is if US Figure Skating ignored the careful criteria they set up to choose the Olympic team. The criteria is there for a reason. They followed it, which was the right thing to do. Body of work is reliable. Brown and Zhou (Malinin beat Zhou at Nationals, too, remember?) have come through time and again for the US. (Well, Zhou often chokes, like he did last night, but he also has had good moments.) Malinin had one good competition. He could be a flash in the pan. Who knows? The Olympics are not the time to figure that out. The right US men are on the team.

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You must be desperate because you're making basic mistakes. Zhu qualified under the women's TEAM short program. She fell under that program and took the entire Chinese team (7 other competitors) who were in 3rd place - down to 5th. Preventing an entire TEAM from medaling. So a) it wasn't just 3 out of 27 people who can medal and b) her failure became her team's failure which makes it even more pitiful. Thanks to her Japan is in the lead for Bronze and there's no way anyone but Russia and U.S. will take Silver and Gold for team medals (not even speaking on individuals). The lead is too far to catch up for a team medal with one program remaining.

Here's the U.S. celebrating its 2018 Bronze TEAM medal.

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Anonymous wrote:The 15 yo Russian skater was of course beautiful and even with a fall she scored 30 points higher than anyone else.

I really dislike the unattractive plié move everyone seems to be doing this year.

That's called a cantilever and people have been doing it for ages.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, Ilia should be competing at the Olympics — it is so sketchy how they ignore the results of nationals to pick whom ever they want.. And he is a local kid (FCPS student)!

Anonymous wrote:The 15 yo Russian skater was of course beautiful and even with a fall she scored 30 points higher than anyone else.

I really dislike the unattractive plié move everyone seems to be doing this year.

Anonymous wrote:Is there a video of Zhu's performance?